Transcendence & Annihilation

For the masculine aristocrat, esoteric practice follows a path of Kingly behavior in the fashion of a conqueror. Worshipping the Solomonic way, the male works to project himself into the world, to spread himself out as a present force acting upon things. His power is made by his full individuation, in himself, for himself, the circular logic of “might in right”. For the feminine aristocrat, esoteric practice follows the opposite, submissive path, in the fashion of a succubus. The White Tigress practices her art via accepting presence into her absence, thus strengthening herself by processing it within, attaining the fearful status of a devil or witch, one who drinks vitality.

For the male, the distinction of power and disempowerment is that of building and seduction. In the former, his actions reproduce himself, the capturing of territory under his banner, the building of his estate, the tentacular spread of Rockefeller’s oil-octopus. In the latter, his actions go towards nothing, sputtering his energy out into a black hole, destroying himself as he spills his vitality for another. He suffer soul-wounding as infliction. For the female, the distinction of power and disempowerment is that of free movement and entrapment. In the former, she is able to fully control herself, flying aloft as a bird, unweighted and consuming by her own will. In the latter, she is enclosed and entrapped, weighted to be fully descended, unable to process out the presence upon and within her. She suffers soul-wounding as weighting.

The results of seduction for the man creates himself, paradoxically, as the ultimate presence. When fully drained of all vitality, he becomes the utmost himself. By spilling himself out, he is fully individuated by being present in the channels and forms of his seductress. The male gimp shows this, the most present of any scene, the raw and perfect human form, no shifting or blending occurring at his margins, no possible lines of flight, only the most essential existence of a human being. In the same mechanism, the results of entrapment for the woman creates herself as the ultimate absence. Fully afflicted, she becomes nothing more than a channel by which another’s presence moves, reduced to a mere passageway, a vessel of input and output, with no mind of her. The male dream of women shows this, where her personhood ultimately slips away in favor of himself. Heterosexual marriage disintegrates by his inability to realize his wish, which is her as a perfect conduit, fading into the background to become part of the house, providing him with another channel to house him as the couch or hallway does.

The counter-intuitive paradox holds true for the positive case as well. The results of building for the man result in his annihilation. By fully embracing himself as a warrior or king, he participates ultimately in naturally-selecting dynamics, which integrate him into the world until he is lost entirely. The man disintegrates but he remains behind as Yin, channels and paths. The city of Split, built into the forgotten palace, monuments and ruined artefacts forgotten by still in use. The results of movement for the woman meanwhile, result in transcendence. By drinking Yang, she nourishes a soul within her, a presence of Yang which sustains her and allows perfectly free movement.